Male 'irrationality' seems to pop up in larger-scale, systemic thinking (aliens abduct people, 911 was an inside job, etc.), and female 'irrationality' seems more personal/close, tangible sensations (vaccinations, crystal healing, astrology).
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The first category seems less threatening to me - there's not a lot of tangible action to take about aliens, but there's a lot of tangible stuff you can do for the second category. Does this mean that female-style irrationality causes more damage?
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Was going to say seems like males are more independent timecube types vs females where it seems to be group-directed
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Depends on how you define irrationality. I'd include "if I keep asking her out I can wear her down and one day she will love me" as pretty irrational, and that's not large scale (but is all too common).
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Where irrationality shows up is caused as much by gender roles in society as anything. Women have roles that make them concentrate on one set of subjects, men on another. Those crossing roles also have stereotyped upbringing and the role baggage from that.
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That's an interesting idea. I've never considered these things through the lense of gender like that. Nice point.
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Interesting
It seems to match the gender difference in polictics
Men tent to care about larger scale systems such as the state level politics, geo-politics ect
Where as women tennd to focus on more proximal things such as local government
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Internet says no difference for believe in conspiracy theories by gender: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11
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Within yoga/vegan/hippie circles, it is not more common for women than men to believe in spiritual/new age stuff. It seems like most people do. These are the people I've been surrounded with my whole life.